Turns out putting on a condom is good for the planet AND the economy. Economists from Brown University studied how a decrease in birthrates could influence carbon emissions and income per capita. Conventional wisdom suggests that fewer babies would reduce both — but their model found ...

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Donald Trump has made rebuilding America’s decrepit infrastructure a centerpiece of his political pitch. And it seems many top Democrats are optimistic about it. The problem is that what Trump has actually proposed isn’t what our infrastructure needs. “If you want a plan that is going...

Over a decade ago, a friend of mine moved into a warehouse in Oakland. The first time I saw it, the warehouse was an echoing, cavernous space, empty except for a few lonely trucks parked inside and a 1950s office chair rigged up so that it hung like a chandelier from the ceiling-mount...

How the sugar industry killed Florida’s beaches. Florida’s Treasure Coast has sandy, white beaches, an abundance of wildlife, and a very serous algae problem. The problem was especially dire last summer, when a thick, green sludge blanketed beaches and waterways along the coast, choki...

Stop what you’re doing and watch kids rap about growing food. Put down the Hot Cheetos and Takis and pick up the broccoli: That’s the message in a very catchy new music video produced by Appetite for Change , a North Minneapolis non-profit that organizes workshops, urban gardens, and ...

Marion Nestle, 80, is a nutrition and food policy heavyweight. She’s written six award-winning books, including 2015’s Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) , which received the 2016 James Beard Award for Writing and Literature. Today, Nestle is a professor of nutrition at N...

Just what we need: A science denier in charge of the NASA transition. The newest member of the Trump transition team is Chris Shank, policy director for the House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology committee and deputy chief of staff to committee chair Lamar Smith, repo...

The scene underscored the conflicts within the anti-pipeline movement. Some activists, led in part by a group of protesters who lived in a compound called Red Warrior Camp, were committed to stopping the pipeline through direct action. While many Standing Rock Sioux were out on the fr...